<p><font face="Arial"><strong><H4>The dbn.par file</H4></strong></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial"><FONT SIZE=2>The file <strong>dbn.par</strong> is one of the typical <strong>CDS/Isis</strong> configuration files, which indicates the whereabouts or locality of the parts of a database.</p>
<p>In the current version of <strong>ABCD</strong> this file specifies:</p>
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    <li>the path to the folder where the database itself resides</li>
    <li>the path to the format which produces the prologue of the page for the update of a record</li>
    <li>the path to the format which produces the epilogue of the page for the update of a record</li>
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<p>E.g.:</p>
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<p><font face="Arial"><FONT SIZE=2>biblo.*=%path_database%biblo/data/biblo.*<br />
prologoact.pft=%path_database%www/prologoact.pft<br />
epilogoact.pft=%path_database%www/epilogoact.pft</font></font></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><font face="Arial"><FONT SIZE=2>The print formats are not included in this file since ABCD creates the path directly based on the configuration parameters.</font></font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font face="Arial">The name &nbsp;<strong>%path_database% </strong>in the file<strong> .par</strong> is substituted for the real path in the main configuration file <strong>config.php</strong>. This allows moving the directory <strong>bases</strong> without impact on the directories of the database parts.</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font face="Arial">If for some reason the database files need to be put outside the base folder, specify the absolute (not relative) paths in the file<strong> dbn.par</strong></font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font face="Arial">If a format is referencing another one or REF is used to relate to another database, both the referred databases and the referring databases need to be included in the related <strong> dbn.par</strong></font></p>
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